Stopped installing OpenGL, VDPAU, CUDA, and OpenCL header files with the driver. Those interested in these files can
get them from their Linux distributions' packages, where available, or upstream from:

Note that while libvdpau.so is still included in 260.xx drivers,
it will be removed from a future release series in early 2011.
Distributors are encouraged to package libvdpau.so from
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU

Note that http://www.opengl.org/registry/ does not presently provide gl.h or
glx.h. Until that is resolved, NVIDIA's OpenGL " header files can still be
chosen, through the “--opengl-headers” installer option.

Fixed the CustomEDID X configuration option so that it can handle EDID files from Linux procfs; e.g., /proc/acpi/video/IGPU/LCD0/EDID.

Fixed an interaction problem with a change in X server behavior that caused slow text rendering on X.Org xserver 1.9.

Enhanced VDPAU to support interop with CUDA and OpenGL when Xinerama is active.

Fixed a bug in VDPAU that prevented temporal-spatial de-interlacing from operating when temporal de-interlacing was not also enabled.

Added support for configuring the dithering depth used when driving a flat panel with a GeForce 8 family or Quadro 4600/5600 or
newer GPU. See the "Dithering Controls" in the Flat Panel page
in nvidia-settings.

Added support for the nvcuvid API.

nvcuvid provides a mechanism for decoding video and exposing the
surfaces to CUDA, allowing applications to perform custom processing of
the video. nvcuvid is primarily targeted at transcoding and video-
processing applications. nvcuvid was already available on other
platforms.

By default, nvidia-installer places headers in /usr/include/nvcuvid,
and library in /usr/lib/libnvcuvid.so, or in the appropriate library
path for your system.

Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause a "display preemption" when toggling MPlayer to full-screen the first time.

Added OpenGL 4.1 support for Quadro Fermi, GeForce GTX 4xx, and later GPUs.

Enhanced VDPAU to fully support Xinerama.

Fixed a bug in the X driver that prevented operation of Xinerama when using multiple NVIDIA GPUs from different major hardware generations
on X with ABI 4 or greater.

Fixed a bug in the OpenGL driver's Xinerama support.

Rendering should have ocurred to all physical X screens driven by an
NVIDIA GPU compatible with the NVIDIA GPU driving physical X screen 0.
However, if some physical X screen did not satisfy that requirement,
then not only would that physical X screen not be rendered to (as
expected), but also all physical X screens with a higher number would
not be rendered to (which was unexpected).

Enhanced the VDPAU overlay-based presentation queue to allow it to be used when SLI is active, and in some cases when the X composite
extension is enabled. See the README for further details.

Added support for configuring the dithering mode used when driving a flat panel with a GeForce 8 family or Quadro 4600/5600 or
newer GPU.See the "Dithering Controls" in the Flat Panel page
in nvidia-settings.

Added unofficial GLX protocol support (i.e., for GLX indirect rendering) for the following OpenGL extensions:

Added support for configuring individual displays as any eye in passive stereo mode "4" when using TwinView or SLI Mosaic through extensions to
the MetaMode syntax.

Added ColorSpace and ColorRange features for HDMI. These give the ability to output YUV over HDMI and select full/reduced
color range on RGB over HDMI. ColorSpace and ColorRange
are X Configuration options and can be changed dynamically
through nvidia-settings.

Note that many Linux distributions provide their own packages of the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver in the distribution's native package management format. This may interact better with the rest of your distribution's framework, and you may want to use this rather than NVIDIA's official package.

Also note that SuSE users should read the SuSE NVIDIA Installer HOWTO before downloading the driver.

Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run

One of the last installation steps will offer to update your X configuration file. Either accept that offer, edit your X configuration file manually so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used, or run nvidia-xconfig

Note that the list of supported GPU products is provided to indicate which GPUs are supported by a particular driver version. Some designs incorporating supported GPUs may not be compatible with the NVIDIA Linux driver: in particular, notebook and all-in-one desktop designs with switchable (hybrid) or Optimus graphics will not work if means to disable the integrated graphics in hardware are not available. Hardware designs will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, so please consult with a system's manufacturer to determine whether that particular system is compatible.